Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Category: Software Development
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Referral Reward: € 1,000 - € 2,000
Employment Type: Employment contract
Time Allocation: Full Time
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Remaining positions: 2
Recruitment process:
- An assignment. If hired, your effort during the recruiting process will be rewarded with a bonus—this is not about free work.
- 2 discussions, one of which is face to face and includes a live task.
Responsibilities:
- Define the best technical solution and infrastructure
- Create scalable micro-services and APIs architecture
- Ensure performance, reliability and scalability
- Use your tech expertise to proactively find solutions to solve complex issues, understanding and considering the business needs
- Prototype quickly to solve thorny use cases, without getting stuck in theory, as we're prone to shipping early and often
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
- Identify areas of opportunity and improvement
What's in it for you:
- Pioneering work at the forefront of Big Data, Infrastructure and Machine Learning that sometimes means relying on academic papers as our only formal guiding tools in moving onwards
- The chance to shape an original product in a fast growing company, backed by VC investors
- A merit-based, no BS, value-oriented and particularly collaborative work environment
- Fair compensation, ESOP and upward salary growth based on performance.
- Groundbreaking professional challenges and the autonomy to try stuff for the very first time, no matter how experienced you are
- The promise to use the right tool for the job to be able to channel your efforts on what can’t be compensated for — the best use of your skills and abilities.
- The space to try new things out (your way) paired with the freedom to make reasoned decisions and own them
What we expect from you in return:
- High speed and uncompromising quality in your work
- A growth mindset, able to capitalize on unprecedented contexts through your skills and abilities
- An appetite to grapple with a variety of technical challenges
- The ability to quickly and effectively evaluate technical tradeoffs and translate them into relevant scenarios
- Consistent performance over time coordinated with a matching set of values
- Strong problem solving skills that enhance the way you deal with the tension between brief and shipping
- Aversion to the idea of any customer or colleague struggling with what you delivered
- High tolerance for ambiguity, marked by your ambition to push forward with incomplete information
- Resilience, especially in front of failure, that is always paired with pioneering work
Your qualifications:
- Experience in web development using Node.js (Typescript is preferred) or Java (version 8 or higher)
- Experience in designing and maintaining secure & scalable REST based APIs, with a focus on Microservices Architecture
- Experience with Elasticsearch or other similar distributed search engines
- Excellent knowledge of relational databases, comfort with both modern relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience in designing and implementing software testing strategies (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, End-to-end Test, Regression Tests, Performance Tests)
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure
- Knowledge of CI/CD principles and processes. Previous experience with Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins or Travis CI is a plus
- Previous knowledge of Kubernetes and operating Kubernetes clusters is a plus